TBT - Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith is a video game developed by The Collective studio together with Ubisoft Montreal and published by LucasArts, in North America, and Ubisoft in the rest of the world, released on May 5, around the globe, right alongside the actual movie on which is based and ended the new trilogy of films set in the universe of the extremely popular franchise.

Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, being an adaptation of a movie, is based on the plot of the film, centering around the conflict between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, just as the Clone Wars were coming to an end and Anakin needed to decide if he was going to purse the good side of the mystical Force, and become a Jedi knight, or the evil one, and become a Sith warrior under the guidance of the Evil emperor.

UNLOCKABLES

Anakin's Starfighter - Defeat the Anakin Skywalker bot under the default settings to unlock his ship in multi-player mode.

Darth Vader's TIE Fighter - Defeat the Darth Vader bot under the default settings to unlock his ship in multi-player mode.

General Grevious's Starfighter - Defeat the General Grievous bot under the default settings to unlock his ship in multi-player mode.

Millennium Falcon - Defeat the Han Solo bot under the default settings to unlock his ship in multi-player mode.

Slave I - Defeat the Jango Fett bot under the default settings to unlock his ship in multi-player mode.

X-Wing - Defeat the Luke Skywalker bot under the default settings to unlock his ship in multi-player mode.

Anakin: Master difficulty - Defeat Obi-Wan.

Obi-Wan: Special mission 1 (Pursuit Of The Separatists) - Successfully complete Obi-Wan's Utapau Control Center mission.

Obi-Wan: Special mission 3 (Escape From Utapau) - Successfully complete Obi-Wan's Jedi Temple Entrance mission.

Obi-Wan: Master difficulty - Defeat Anakin.

Check out a video of Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith on the Nintendo DS below.

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TBT - Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, we've launched a total of 11 alpha languages, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate to 63.

Indic languages differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems. Indian languages often use the Subject Object Verb (SOV) ordering to form sentences, unlike English, which uses Subject Verb Object (SVO) ordering. This difference in sentence structure makes it harder to produce fluent translations; the more words that need to be reordered, the more chance there is to make mistakes when moving them. Tamil, Telugu and Kannada are also highly agglutinative, meaning a single word often includes affixes that represent additional meaning, like tense or number. Fortunately, our research to improve Japanese (an SOV language) translation helped us with the word order challenge, while our work translating languages like German, Turkish and Russian provided insight into the agglutination problem.

You can expect translations for these new alpha languages to be less fluent and include many more untranslated words than some of our more mature languages—like Spanish or Chinese—which have much more of the web content that powers our statistical machine translation approach. Despite these challenges, we release alpha languages when we believe that they help people better access the multilingual web. If you notice incorrect or missing translations for any of our languages, please correct us; we enjoy learning from our mistakes and your feedback helps us graduate new languages from alpha status. If you're a translator, you'll also be able to take advantage of our machine translated output when using the Google Translator Toolkit.

Since these languages each have their own unique scripts, we've enabled a transliterated input method for those of you without Indian language keyboards. For example, if you type in the word "nandri," it will generate the Tamil word நன்றி (see what it means). To see all these beautiful scripts in action, you'll need to install fonts* for each language.

We hope that the launch of these new alpha languages will help you better understand the Indic web and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages, taking us five alpha steps closer to a web without language barriers.

*Download the fonts for each language: Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati and Kannada.

Official Google Blog: Google Translate welcomes you to the Indic web

TBT - After six months off the air, Keith Olbermannreturned to television Monday night with a new edition of "Countdown" on Current TV.

The hotly anticipated premiere featured appearances from some of Olbermann's contributors, including Michael Moore, John Dean and Markos Moulitsas, as well as a so-called "mini Special Comment" about Olbermann's vision for the show.

Read a recap of how the show went below, and watch the first Special Comment.



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TBT - Call of Duty: Black Ops "Annihilation", Take the fight to "Hangar 18," located in the iconic military base Area 51, complete with experimental weapons labs, the SR-71 test hangar, and a disturbingly mysterious autopsy room. Pull up and get cozy with "Drive-In," a close quarters slugfest through a 60's American drive-in theater, classic arcade, and old school snack shack. Battle through the construction of a massive secret Soviet missile site in the multilevel "Silo," and then take off to a coastal golf course fit for a dictator in "Hazard," set on the cliffs of Cuba where stocked clubhouses and manicured fairways meet sand traps perfect for setting up ambushes.

Zombies return with vengeance in the mysterious land of "Shangri-La," a legendary shrine lost in an exotic jungle. Never before seen undead creatures lurk within a treacherous labyrinth of underground caverns. Step carefully through deadly traps and solve the dark secrets buried within the shifting walls of a long last land.

"With Annihilation, Black Ops fans will get four exciting and unique multiplayer settings with Hangar 18, Drive-In, Silo and Hazard," said Treyarch Studio Head, Mark Lamia. "Players will also enjoy an all-new Zombies experience, Shangri-La, an exotic and mysterious map filled with deadly traps, dark secrets and innovative gameplay that will challenge even the most daring Zombie hunters."

The Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation downloadable content pack will launch worldwide, first on Xbox LIVE on June 28th, 2011.

To celebrate the upcoming release of Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation, Treyarch will host a Double XP weekend beginning Friday, July 1st.



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